Description:
An evocative, affecting play on the horrors of mass incarceration written collaboratively by prisoners who have experienced it first-hand.
Review Quotes:
"While the play's characters ring with authenticity, Caged never neglects its serious political messaging. The play illustrates Black lives in dialogue with a racist system, in which state power reinforces cycles of violence while moments of extraordinary integrity and bravery break through the cracks. Fifteen minutes before the play begins, a dimly lit stage reveals a barred cell. Inside, Shaky Brown, 'a gifted blues musician serving a life sentence, ' plays the blues. Throughout the play, his cell haunts the stage. Yet, his music--at once marginal and persistent, beautiful and full of grief--remains as well."
--Temperature Check, PEN America